Re: Effectively tracing project contributions with git

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 12, 2009, 19:03 UTC
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0909121203r527bc81ctd68382fc1107bf06@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090912185940.GA21277@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Heya,

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 20:59, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> I think it is less a git problem and more of a "how do you want to
> define contribution" problem. The above is just my thinking about it for
> a few minutes. Sverre Rabelier (cc'd) did a "git stats" GSoC project
> last year, but I don't think I ever looked closely at the results or
> what metrics he came up with. But that is probably a good direction to
> look in.

Git stats can aggregate diffs, so it can show you "this author made changes to this many lines to this file in total", but it doesn't work across renames. It also has an option to aggregate that to a total per project number, but I'm not sure how useful that is to your case, as you seem to be interested in a per-file/line basis? I agree with Jeff that you'll need to define more precisely what it is you want to know :).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier